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Brochantite from
Guanaco Mine, Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile


Locality type:Project
Classification
Species:Brochantite
Formula:Cu4(SO4)(OH)6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Malachite5 photos of Brochantite associated with Malachite at this locality.
Chrysocolla2 photos of Brochantite associated with Chrysocolla at this locality.
Azurite1 photo of Brochantite associated with Azurite at this locality.
Gilmarite1 photo of Brochantite associated with Gilmarite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Brochantite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Guanaco Mine, Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
Photo GalleryView Gallery (12 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:251997
Long-form Identifier:1:3:251997:5
GUID (UUID V4):95fec673-1c80-4314-af23-f3824702a6ab
Localities for Brochantite in this Region
Emma Luisa Mine, Guanaco Mine, Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
Nearest other occurrences of Brochantite
77.1km (47.9 miles) El Peñón Mine, Escondida, Antofagasta, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
81.2km (50.5 miles) Salvadora mine, Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
94.0km (58.4 miles) Paposo, Reventon District, Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
98(7)° Z = 2 X-ray Powder Pattern: El Guanaco mine, northern Chile. 8.420 (100), 4.210 (64), 4.322 (21)...19 15.80 36.05 16.96 100.00 (1) El Guanaco mine, northern Chile; average electron microprobe analysis...epithermal deposit hosted by felsic rocks (El Guanaco mine), weathered in an arid and Mg-rich environment...conichalcite, olivenite, chrysocolla, brochantite, quartz, enargite (Chile); quartz, dolomite, chalcopyrite...Distribution: From the El Guanaco mine, ~93 km east of Taltal and 230 km southeast of Antofagasta, 2nd Region, northern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
arsenate mineral species from the El Guanaco Mine, near Taltal, Chile: Description and crystal structure...from the El Guanaco Mine, around 93 km east of Taltal and 230 km southeast of Antofagasta, 2nd Region...Region, Northern Chile. The mineral occurs as blue to pale blue prismatic to acicular crystals up to 0.7 mm...arhbarite, conichalcite, olivenite, chrysocolla, brochantite, quartz and enargite. The crystals are brittle...mineral, crystal structure, akrochordite, El Guanaco Mine, Chile, Taghouni, Morocco. Introduction In 1997
Report (issue)
D(meas.) = 3.71 D(calc.) = 3.96 (Morocco); 4.03(Chile) Optical Properties: Semitransparent. Color: Dark...1 α = 113.58(6)° X-ray Powder Pattern: Arhbar mine, Morocco. 4.57 (100), 4.51 (90), 3.72 (60), 2.603...24 [7.49] 100.08 46.61 7.92 100.01 (1) Arhbar mine, Morocco; by electron microprobe supplemented by...01Co0.01)Σ=0.99(AsO4)1.02(OH)2.92. (2) El Guanaco mine, Chile; by electron microprobe supplemented by FTIR...(Arhbar mine, Morocco); chrysocolla, brochantite, olivenite, iodargyrite, dolomite (Emma Louisa mine, Chile);
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CAPRICORNIO Au-Ag EPITHERMAL VEIN SYSTEM, ANTOFAGASTA REGION, CHILE GIUSEPPE ARFȧ AND MARIA BONI* Dipartimento...Paleocene–Eocene metallogenic belt, 60 km ENE of Antofagasta in the physiographic Central Depression, between...epithermal, Au-Ag, supergene Au-Ag, aridity, gold, Antofagasta Region, Central Depression. § Corresponding...CANADIAN MINERALOGIST INTRODUCTION The Antofagasta region in northern Chile hosts many of the world’s significant...Capricornio property is located 60 km ENE of Antofagasta (23831 0 S latitude, 69850 0 W longitude), in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
copper arsenate, Cu2(OH)AsO4·6H2O, from the Arhbar mine, Morocco. Due to the very small grain size no crystallographic...type material and of new finds from the El Guanaco mine, Chile, is based on Rietveld refinement of X-ray...with the formula Cu2(OH)AsO4·6H2O from the Arhbar mine, Bou Azzer, Morocco (Schmetzer et al., 1982), where...the El Guanaco gold mine, near East Cat ali na Station, 93 km east of Taltal, Antofagasta, Chile (Färber...microprobe analyses of arhbarite from the El Guanaco mine surprisingly gave a Cu:As ratio of ~2.3:1. Neither
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Conichalcite Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb Otjikoto Region, Namibia A n article appeared...olivenite, clinoclase, chenevixite, libethenite, brochantite, malachite, azurite, and jarosite (Palache, Berman...Conichalcite on malachite, 10.5 cm across, from the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto region, Namibia. Fine spherules...green crusts of fibrous spheres at the Cap Garonne mine, Le Pradet, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France...chrysocolla and cuprite has come from the Clara mine, Oberwolfach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Conichalcite
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Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile Geothermal Center of Excellence (CEGA), Universidad de Chile, Santiago...Santiago, Chile 3 Department 4 Eion Cameron Geochemical Inc., Carp, Ontario, Canada 5 Department 6 Department...profile at the Chuquicamata deposit in northern Chile, where anomalous concentrations of this element...extremely arid environments such as desert areas of Chile, Australia, Arizona, Iran, and Kazakhstan, among...et al., 2010). In the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, iodide (I−) and iodate (IO−3) minerals have been
Journal (issue)
Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...Specimens of fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...specimenand image. Nickel Laterite From the Tiebaghi Mine, New Caledonia Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com
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and vanadocrete (vanadate). Panczner 1987 Tajo Mine, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico Panczner...halogenide (Cl-Br-J) Halcretes anglesite tsumebite brochantite chalcanthite copiapite gypsum anhydrite sulfate... Halcretes apatite phosphate Phoscretes brochantite linarite chalcanthite jarosite. REEwoodhouseitesvanbergite...woodhouseite svanbergite alunogen aluminite alunite brochantite chalcantite gypsum alunite sulfate (plus APS...Baumgarten et al. 2008 Dill et al. 1997a Cajamarca Province Peru Palache et al. 1951 Malpelo Island, Colombia
Book (edition)
MINE andtheir LOCALITIES JAN H. BERNARD AND JAROSLAV HYRSL INERALS DESCRIBED SINCE 2004 MINERALS...dist., China Fluomatromicrolite, x 25111111, Naipa mine, Mozambique Daliranite, 5111111, Zarshouran Au-As...Czech Rep. Juangodoyite, 60111111, Santa Rosa mine, Chile Back cover photo: Ho/fertile on hematite, 5 111111...Veta Negra, Chile Page 2: Anorpiment on D!piment pseudomo,phs after realga,; 75 mm, Palomo mine, Pen, Page...CCM CM DANR EJM JMPS MM MP NJMA ZRMO Republic province prefecture county departement departamento
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transparent, prismatic crystals, resembling brochantite in appearance. The system is orthorhombic ; [a...Utah, is now described from Mina Santa Rosa, Guanaco, Taltal, Chili, as small, thick, rhombohedra1 crystals...the Ida May mine gave the results under I. Red jasper i n the ore-veins of the Victor mine gave IT ; it
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Abernathyitc, K[(UO 2 )(AsO,)](HP) 3, tet., Fumerole No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain. on the southeast flank of the...104(3). 326-328 □ Achavnlitc, FcSe, hex .. Cacheuta Mine. Ccrro de Cacheuta. Sierra de Cacheuta. Mcndoza...a seri Qlh·enite. compare E\Clte. Chanårcillo. Chile . .\U 6. 320-328 (str.) witb 0/ivenite 0 Adamsite-(\')...AgardJte-(Ce), CeCu.(AsO4)i(OH).-3H1O, hex., Clara mine, central Black Forest, Gennany,A1ifSS(2004),17-23...(Y,Ca)Cu6(AsO.)i(OH).-3H1O. hex., Bou-Skourcoppcr mine, Ouarzazatc. Morocco,SS, 1447 □ Mixite group AgrelUte
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Lavrion, Greece (6) and Cu-poor adamite from Ojuela mine, Mexico (7) IR spectra of acid salts (silicates...Locality: Salar de Carcote deposit, El Loa province, Antofagasta, Chile. Description: Colourless crystal from...borax deposit, Salar del Hombre Muerto, Salta province, Argentina (type locality). Description: Colourless...Bandylite 27 CuB(OH)4F Locality: Palestina, Atacama, Chile. Description: Blue crystals from the association...Arsenato-Borates Sussexite 29 Mn2+BO2(OH) Locality: Gonzen mine, Sargans, St. Gallen, Switzerland. Description:
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showing early mining methods, a case of antique mine lamps, worldwide uranium and rare earth ores, gold... e tem er cto er Calcite, 24.1 cm, Verchniy mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia. Jeff Scovil photo. Famous...T pe localit or ma hrebite: the opencast A hbar mine in November 2005. The miners settlement is seen...es avreau photo. Fi re ead rame o the Bouismas mine, re-opened in 2003 and nown or recent discoveries...Fi re A shi t chan e at the A oudal mine, November 2005. This mine has been nown since 2002 or excellent
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rang, and mills thumped. The wind played among the mine headframes, making them moan. An article in the...at the Ramona mine on the southwestern slope of Bull Hill, next to the War Eagle mine. A later report...report revealed the shaft at the Happy Year mine, straight as a straw, had reached a depth of 350 feet by...Type Locality in Morocco, the Arhbar (or Aghbar) Mine. It usually has a dark blue color, a vitreous to...only found in two localities, the Type and in Guanaco in Chile. The “strange” name for the second mineral
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Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...expressed in abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture)...canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and oblast (Russia). The country names are...the revolution in 1997. Its mineral rich Katanga province was renamed Shaba by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga...Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided to three regions: INTRODUCTION
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Universidad de Concepci6n Casilla 4107 Concepci6n, Chile ISBN 978-3-642-88284-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-88282-1.... . . . 37 The Metalliferous Ore Deposits of Chile and Argentina, and Their Geologic Framework J. Oyarzun... . . . . . . . . 147 X Contents El Aguilar Mine: An Ordovician Sediment-Hosted Stratiform Lead-Zinc...Sulfides in the Greenstone Belt of South-Central Chile - An Overview G. Alfaro and S. Callao . . . . ....Formation and Massive Sulfide Orebodies, South-Central Chile: Geologic and Isotopic Aspects S. Callao, G. Alfaro
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Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini...the words of the original discoverers. Adelaide Mine, Tasmania, 1971, 2012 Albert Chapman wrote one such
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existence o f a new unconformity-vein style uranium province in the Proterozoic of the Great Sandy Desert....the largest deposits in any established porphyry province. For a discussion of the accepted terminology...localised in the U.S. “South-west”, and in northern Chile and southern Peru,and were Cu-Mo orebodies (Gilmour...Cook and Porter;all in this publication) and in Chile, Argentina and Peru in South America (see Camus;...Chuquicamata, El Abra, La Escondida and El Teniente in Chile, Cerro Colorado in Panama, Grasberg in Indonesia
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San Pedro Mine in Santa Fe County, and along with his son Phillip is actively exploring the mine for minerals...minerals. The San Pedro Mine is perhaps best known for producing beautiful specimens of finely crystalline...Phillip have also developed a surface exposure at the mine to produce some very nice, single, sceptered quartz...ci rc ulatio n for some years. Sulfides are real mine rals and I still regret no t buy ing a good specimen...came from the Ortiz Mine (Cunningham Gulch) around 19845. The Ortiz mountains and mine are just a few miles
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d'Ossola, Italy; Lyangara, Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah...Located on the east rim of Magnet Cove, the Christy Mine, fonnerly known as the Christy brookite locality...zone during exploration drilling at the Brewer Gold Mine in South Carolina in the early I990s. Those crystals...Developments al the William Wisc Mine 13-4: 1.8.9 Erich Grunclcl Collecting at the ZCA Mine. West Pierrepont, New...Symposium 13-1:6.7 Mike Hedtke Minerals from the Diamond Mine. Taconite. Minnesota 13-7: 1.4,5 Laurence Huestis
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41)(Si3.86Al0.10 Fe0.04O10)(OH)2 from Mikhailovskii mine, Zheleznogorsk, Russia (Chukanov 2014a). IR spectra...In Fe3+-bearing Mg-poor schorl from the Limoeiro mine, Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil, the band of OH groups...area), olmiite CaMn(HSiO4)(OH) from N’Chwaning II mine, Kalahari manganese fields, South Africa (c), and...brandtite Ca2Mn(AsO4)2·2H2O from skarn (Harstigen mine, Sweden) (b), and roselite Ca2Co(AsO4)2·2H2O from...from Cigana mine, Brazil (a), landesite [nominally, Fe3+Mn2+2 (PO4)2(OH)·] from Bull Moose mine, South Dakota
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On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G...the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALMA Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine, [near Alma
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K(U02)As04*3H20, Tet. Vitreous yellow. Fuemrole mine, Temple Mt., Emery Co., Utah, USA. H= 2-3, Djjj=...brownish-yellow, green, white, etc. Chanarcillo, Chile. H= 3.5, Djj4= 4.434, Dq= 4.45, VHB 04. Friedel...grey, bluish-grey, yellow, light green. Langban mine, Filipstad (near), Varmland, Sweden. H= 5, Djjj=3...5As30ig, E Rhom. Translucent blue-green. Terres mine, St. Ausdell, Cornwall, England and/or Johanngeorgenstadt...804)3 •nH20, ® Hex. Transparent bluish. Lapis-lazuli mine, Sar-e-Sang, Badakshan, Afghanistan. H= 5.5-6, Djj4=
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1000° Mots inc. Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle...Marquis imprimeur inc. Barite on Quartz, Rock Candy mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer...Mayer Publisher Pyromorphite, Society Girl mine, Moyie, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer Mineralogical... Ontario Canada Diopside on Grossular, Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec / Photo by Jeffrey A. Scovil...including amateur col- lectors, company executives, mine owners, and vari- in the appropriate position.
 
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